Combined front-axle support and shock-absorber for motor-cars.



B. MONNICH.

COMBINED FRONT AXLE SUPPORT AND SHOCK ABSORBER FOR MOTOR CARS. APPucmoNFILED OCT. 15. m4.

1,1473%. Patented July 27, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH CO., WASHINGTON. D- C.

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BERNARD MONNICH, OF HOOPER, NEBRASKA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 15, 1914. Serial No. 886,812.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, BERNARD MONNICI-I, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hooper, in the county of Dodge and State of Nebraska, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Front- AxleSupports and Shock-Absorbers for Motor-Cars, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to motor cars and its object is to provide anovel and improved front axle supporting means which also serves as ashock absorber.

The invention consists in a combination and arrangement of parts to behereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of therunning gear of the car showing the application of the invention, andFig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

Referring specifically to the drawing, 5 denotes the side bars of thechassis, and 6 denotes the front axle. The side bars sup port a crankcase 7 between which latter and the front axle extend radius rods 8. Thefront ends of the side bars have a connecting portion 9 supported on atransverse spring 10 connected at its ends to the front axle by means ofshackles 11. The shackle bolts are indicated at 12. These parts areconstructed and arranged in the usual manner as in the well known Fordcar to which the invention is specially applicable, although not limitedthereto.

The combined front axle support and shock absorber, which is the subjectmatter of the present application for patent, comprises spring steelbars 13 connected at their forward ends to the front axle 6, beneath thelatter, by means of the shackle bolts 12, and at their rear ends to theside bars 5, there being one of these bars on each side of the frame,and to each one of said bars, intermediate the ends thereof, isconnected a spring steel bar 14 made fast to the side bar. The bar 13extendsrearward from the axle, and intermediate its ends it is bentupward, as indicated at 15, so that it may be fastened at its rear endto the side bar, as indicated at 16. The rear end of the bar 13 has asidewise twist 17 so that it may be placed fiat against the side bar andbolted or otherwise made fast thereto. The bar 1 1 is bolted orotherwise fastened to the side bar,as indicated at 18, and it extendsdownwardly therefrom at an oblique angle to meet the bar 13 at thecommencement of the bend 15, at which point it is therethrough.

The structure hereinbefore described provides a support and brace forthe front axle from the under side, and also serves as a shock absorber.The movement of the car body up and down, incident to road shocks,flexes the bar 13 from the point of attachment of the bar 11- to thefront axle, and thus said bar 13 acts to absorb shocks, as it has atendency to check both the upward and downward movement of the car body.The structure also takes the strain of the radius rods 8 from the crankcase 7, and relieves the latter from all road shocks, and thus preventsjarring loose of the rivets in the crank case hangers, and reduces thedanger of bending or breakage of the radius rods to a minimum. When theattachment is in place on the car, the point 20 will be about two inchesabove the point of attachment of the bar 13 with the front axle. Hence,when the axle moves toward the body, the axle must necessarily moveforward, relieving the strain from the crank case until the axle movespast the center, or on the horizontal with the point 20. However, thisdoes not occur as the front spring does not allow the axle to move morethan one and one-half inches toward the body except in extreme cases,when it can move not more than three inches, which would bring the axlein contact with the spring clips. When at the extreme it is impossiblefor the radius rod to transmit road shocks to the crank case. The partscan be easily applied to the car without any change in the structurethereof, and as they are few and simple, the installation can be readilyand cheaply made.

I claim:

1. The combination with the frame and front axle of a vehicle, saidframe being spring supported by the axle; of resilient bars made fast tosaid axle and extending rearward therefrom and made fast at their rearends to the frame, said bars being free to flex up and down, and barsmade fast to Patented July 27, 1915. p

the frame, and extending to and connected with the first-mentioned barsintermediate the ends thereof.

2. The combination with the frame and front axle of a Vehicle, saidframe being spring supported by the axle; of resilient bars made fast tosaid axle and having an upward bend intermediate their ends extendingrearward to and fastened to the frame, and bars extending between theframe and the angle of the bend in the first-mentioned bars and madefast to the BERNARD MONNIGH.

Witnesses:

LLOYD STEINBAUGH, I-I. Gr. MEYER.

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